λυκο·σπάς, άδος (ὁ, ἡ) [ῠᾰδ]
      1 déchiré ou ravi par un loup ou des loups, NIC. Th. 742 ;
      2 ὁ λ. cheval sauvage de la basse Italie, EL. N.A. 16, 24 ; PLUT. M. 641 f.

Étym. λ. σπάω.

άδος, ὁ, ἡ, torn by wolves, epith. of bees, Nic. Th. 742 (because generated from corpses of oxen torn by wolves, Sch. ad loc.). of horses, Ἀτράκιον δἤπειτα λυκοσπάδα πῶλον ἐλαύνει Call. Fr. 474, where it may mean drawn by the bit (λύκος v. 1), cf. Plu. 2.641f, or ἀποσπασθεῖσαν ἀπὸ λύκου as expld. by Choerob. in Theod. 1.287, cf. Plu. l.c. (where horses bitten by wolves are said to become speedier); but οἱ λ. were a breed of horses in lower Italy, = ἵπποι αἱ Ἐνετίδες, Phot., cf. Hsch., Ael. NA 16.24.

άδος, vom Wolfe zerrissen ; Ael. N.A. 1.38 ; Nic. Th. 742 ; vom Wolfe angefallen, ἵπποι, über die Plut. Symp. 2.8 spricht, eine Pferderace in Unteritalien, vgl. Ael. H.A. 16.24.